Activision Blizzard Financials - WoW at 7.8M Subscribers

Activision Blizzard announces "better-than-expected" fiscal fourth quarter
and full year 2013 results. Word is: "For calendar year 2013, Activision
Blizzard delivered GAAP net revenues of $4.58 billion, as compared with $4.86
billion for 2012." For the quarter, they say: "For the quarter ended December
31, 2013, the company delivered GAAP net revenues of $1.52 billion, as compared
with $1.77 billion for the fourth quarter of 2012." They also offer the latest
World of Warcraft numbers, saying the MMORPG now has 7.8 million subscribers,
which is 200K more than their
last census.
Here's word from CEO Bobby Kotick:

“As we look to 2014 and beyond, we
have the strongest and most diverse pipeline of games in our history. In 2014,
we expect these releases to enable us to grow non-GAAP revenues year over year
and generate record non-GAAP earnings per share. We expect Bungie’s Destiny™, an
innovative shared-world, first-person action game to be Activision Publishing’s
next billion dollar franchise. Activision Publishing also has terrific new games
planned for the Call of Duty® and Skylanders™ franchises, and Blizzard
Entertainment has an expansion to the top-selling PC and console game Diablo®
III and another major new release. Also in our pipeline for 2014 and the next
few years are at least three potentially groundbreaking new free-to-play
franchises—Blizzard’s Hearthstone™: Heroes of Warcraft™ and Heroes of the
Storm™, and Activision Publishing’s Call of Duty Online. We believe these games
have great global potential. Free-to-play as a business model has now achieved
scale, both in the West and in China. Hearthstone, which released in open beta
on PC last month and which Blizzard Entertainment plans to expand this year to
tablets and smartphones, is already attracting millions of players with strong
engagement and monetization in the West and China, putting it on track to join
World of Warcraft®, Diablo, and StarCraft® as their fourth mega
franchise.”